From: Geoff Russell <geoffrey.russell@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2008 02:03:08 GMT
Subject: Re: About detached heads
Message-ID: <93c3eada0803141903p30184defk979247129a1cc6db@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.1.00.0803142025080.2947@xanadu.home>

On 3/15/08, Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> wrote:
> ...
>
>         git reset --hard HEAD@{yesterday.at.4pm}
>
>  and it'll magically bring you back to the state you were yesterday at
>  4pm.  You need the 6pm state instead?  No problem: just ask for
>  yesterday.at.6pm then.
>
>  And before doing the 'reset --hard', you might want to do a simple
>  'checkout' beforehand so you can be sure it actually corresponds to what
>  you want:
>
>         git checkout HEAD@{yesterday.at.4pm}
>         [compile, test, whatever]
>         git checkout HEAD@{yesterday.at.6pm}
>         [compile, test, whatever]
>
>  and when OK with it, then:
>
>         # return to your master branch (or any other branch)
>         git checkout master
>         # then reset it to the desired state
>         git reset --hard HEAD@{yesterday.at.6pm}
>
>
>
>  Nicolas

More useful advice ... many thanks.

Cheers,
Geoff.